Radio and television mirror (July-Dec 1942)

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<Wk«M Nan Grey and Richard Cromwell, as Kathy and Kit Marshall, are back on the air in the serial drama, Those We Love— and that's good news to many a listener. Left, the Skipper, alias J. D., gives his daddy, Clifford Barbour (Barton Yarborough), a pre-bedtime reading job in One Man's Family. Cedric Foster, Yankee network commentator, has a startling answer for people who ask him how he got his start in radio. LOOK for some changes soon on the three programs that feature * Johnny, the pint-sized call-boy. Vick Knight, dynamic young radio director who is credited with having built up many a program to the heights of popularity, has been signed up to do a job of reconstruction on all three of these shows — and incidentally, to originate a couple of new broadcasts in the fall for some other sponsors. * * * Half of Ellery Queen was married on July 4. If that sounds peculiar, remember that Ellery Queen, the famous detective, is really two people — Manfred B. Lee and Frederic Dannay, who write the mystery stories and radio scripts in collaboration. It was Manfred Lee who got married, and the bride is Kaye Brinker, Hollywood radio writer, actress and director. * * * It's like old times to hear the Mills Brothers on the air once more. In case you've missed them so far, you can tune them in on the Blue network, Sundays at 6:45 p. m., EWT. Strictly speaking, of course, they're not all brothers any longer — as you'll remember, death broke up the original quartet, and the father of all the boys stepped in to take the place of the one who died. * *. * Clara, Lu, and Em are some more old-timers making their return to the air. These three talkative housewives, played by Louise Starkey Mead, Harriet Allyn and Helen King Mitchell, are so far being heard only on a small CBS network, but here's hoping they'll soon go coast-to-coast. * * * BOSTON — Nine out of ten people meeting a news commentator for the first time are sure to ask, "How does a news commentator get his start?" At least, that's the opinion of Cedric Foster, whose analyses of current events are heard on the Yankee and Mutual networks. Foster usually looks the questioner straight in the eye and says with a very serious face, "I was manager of a radio station, so I had the power to put myself on Continued on page 6 RADIO AND TELEVISION MIHBOR I